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Interior designer, Music Producer, Emerging Writer, Aesthete, Catalog Model, Literary Enthusias @ Olaitanblinds.ng
Lagos, Nigeria
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<p>Ever feel like your life is just one long, boring TikTok loop that you can't swipe away?</p><p><br/></p><p>That’s adulting.</p><p>We don't really "wake up" anymore, we just react to an alarm. We’ve become professional actors, wearing an "I’m fine" mask like a uniform. On the outside, everyone looks like they have it together. But inside? Everyone is just running on 1% battery, staring at the clock and wondering when the weekend is finally coming.</p><p>It’s a weird cycle. You spend all your time and energy trying to make money. And for what? Just to pay for the room you sleep in so you can rest up and go make more money the next day. It’s like a game where you level up, but the rewards just go toward paying for the gear you used to win. You work to solve a problem, but the work itself creates three more problems. You need data to work, you need transport to get there, and you need "treats" just to keep your sanity and all of that costs exactly what you just earned.</p><p>The music on this carousel stopped being fun a long time ago.</p><p>Life feels like a monthly subscription we never signed up for. The light, the water, the internet, everything is a recurring bill. We aren’t building dreams; we’re just building a bridge to get us to next Friday. And as soon as we cross it, we realize the next one is already broken.</p><p>There’s a quiet loneliness in it. You look at the person in the bus or the person next to you in class, and you can see the same "loading" icon in their eyes. We’re all running as fast as we can, but the view never changes. It’s the same stress, the same bills, and the same "God, when will this end?" whispered under our breath.</p><p>This loop is exhausting because it makes us forget our "why." When life is just a checklist of things to survive, we stop being curious. We stop dreaming about the stars because we’re too busy checking if we have enough gas to cook dinner.</p><p><br/></p><p>The real tea? The 'perfect' life is a myth. Everyone is tired. Everyone is struggling. We’re all just travelers in a loop, looking for a way out of the circle and into a future that actually feels real.<br/></p><p><br/></p>
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